Colour photograph under Altuglas by Olivier Dassault

Work by Olivier Dassault (1951-2021), photograph presented under acrylic glass, enhancing depth, reflections, and colour saturation. The image is dominated by a warm and intense palette: deep reds, burnt oranges, and bright yellows. These colours evoke warmth, materiality, almost rust or walls patinated by time. There is a sense of fragments of architecture—doors, panels, walls, perhaps shutters—layered and deconstructed. Rectangular geometric shapes interlock and overlap, creating a highly structured yet deliberately fragmented composition. Dark vertical and horizontal bands traverse the image, like shadows, beams, or graphic marks, reinforcing rhythm and visual tension. The brighter yellow areas function almost like windows or sources of light within this red mass, providing strong contrast and guiding the gaze. The work conveys a sensation that is both urban and emotional: urban through its raw textures, worn surfaces, and architectural lines, and emotional through the intensity of red, which can evoke passion, memory, warmth, or even a sense of confinement. The layering creates an impression of stacked time, as if multiple moments or places coexist within the same image.